[Mobile Games] Pokémon GO players report being robbed when using Campfire

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Last year Niantic presented a complementary application for Pokémon GO named Campfire, which serves as a collaborative tool between players to coordinate joint events and cooperate in ingame activities. However, the most recent reports from the community portend very bad news about Campfire, and it seems that there are thieves taking advantage of this app to surprise people at night.

Campfire is full of thieves and the community warns
It has recently been noted on the Pokémon GO subreddit as well as in Campfire reviews that there have been several Pokémon GO players mugged overnight by thieves posing as other players. Although there have been no official reports from the police in any country, there are not a few users who have explained these encounters on the internet.

Apparently, the modus operandi of these alleged thieves is to use Campfire to create a flare from the application that attracts the attention of other innocent nearby players. Creating a flare in Campfire allows you to pinpoint Pokémon GO raid locations and gyms to collaborate with other players, but in this case the flare would only serve as a lure to lure players into vulnerable areas at night, and would not serve the purpose. real for which they were created.
 

In a Reddit post from a few days ago, user Uunikana shared an ironic photo between the expectations one expects when using Campfire and the reality of running into a thief face to face. "So people get sucked into the flares and then get robbed. Looks like you were the real raid boss all along," the user wrote in the post.

In this same thread another player wrote: "I got a notification around 11pm last night saying a flare had been lit. When there was definitely not a raid going on," to which he added: "It was at a small kiddie park in kindergarten".

They are not the only ones to share their insecurities when it comes to using Campfire. If you turn, for example, to the reviews of the app on the App Store you can also find similar comments and warnings about crooks trying to lure others with the flares. The app, by the way, accumulates almost 1000 votes at the moment but only 2.1 stars.

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